Lacing-hook



(No Model.)

A W. F. SPINNEY.

LAGING HOOK. N Patented Dec. 5, 1882...

N. PETERS. Phvlo-liihognmr. WibNnlM l1 0 To all whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

e WILLIAM F. SPINNEY, ()F READING, MASSACHUSETTS.

LAClNG-HOOK.

SPECIFIGATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 268,744, dated December 5, 1882,

Application filed August 1'25, 1882.

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM I SPINNEY, of Reading, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain lniprovements in Lacing-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to lacing-hooks of that class in which the hookprojects under a portion of the plate on which the hook is formed.

The invention, which is intendedchiefly for gloves, has for its object to provide a book of this class in which the outward projection of the part of the plate under which the hook is formed shall be reduced to the minimum.

To this end my invention consists in theirnprovement which I will now proceed to de scribe and claim.

()f the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification. Figure 1 represents atop View of my improved lacing-hook. Fig. 2 represents an edge View of the same. Fig. 3 represents a view of the blank from which the hooks shown in Figs. 1 and 2 are formed. Fig. 4 represents an enlarged side view of a portion of a glove provided with my improved lacing hooks, the latter having a somewhat different iorm. Fig. 5 represents a longitudinal section of one of the hooks shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 represents the blank from which the hooks shown in Figs. 4 and 5 are formed.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In carrying out my invention I construct a lacing-hook from a single plate or blank, having at one end atlat base, a, adapted for at-' tachment to a glove or other article by any suitable means, preferably by a pellet or body of metal inserted in a pocket formed by drawing a portion of the glove through an orifice in the base a, the pellet being upset in said pocket, as described in another application tiled by me. From the base [6 the plate is bent outwardly to form a projecting neck, I),

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then substantially at right angles with said neck, away from the base, to form a top, 0,

substantially parallel with the base, but extending away from the same, and then downwardly and back wardly from said top to form a hook, d, projecting under the top toward out not over the base.

It will be observed that the hook is offset from the base, so that nothingis interposed between the hook and the surface of the glove under the hook. The outward projection of the .top 0, on which the hook is formed, is therefore reduced to the minimum, and the device is rendered less inconvenient to the wearer on account of its outward projection than would be the case if the hook werefornred over the base, as has been heretofore proposed in Letters Patent No. 77,029, in which apart of the plate or base, is'interposed between the. hook and the surface of the article under the hook, thus causing the top part of the hook to project outwardly farther than the top a of my improved hook a distance equal to the thickness of the plate or base, in order to afford room for the passage of the lacing under the hook. I prefer in some cases to enlarge the top 0 and give it a cup shape, as shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 6, so as to give the book a neat and button-like effect.

I claim- A glove-fastening having a base, a, and a neck, 1), extended up from the base, and the outer end bent down and in toward the base beneath the body of the fastening, as shown and described.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification, in the presence oftwo sub: scribing witnesses, this 18th day of August, 1882.

WILLIAM F. SPINNEY.

itnesses:

O. F. BROWN, A. L. WHITE. 

